Then the flamboyant left wing's signing with the Winnipeg Jets gave instant credibility to a new league, the World Hockey Association, in the 1970s. One of the fastest skaters in the game ...
The Whalers became part of the NHL when the league absorbed the WHA for the 1979-1980 season ... milestone by welcoming back some Hartford Hockey alumni. The team said the former play-by-play ...
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Tom McVie, longtime Bruins assistant who also coached Capitals, Jets and Devils, has died at 89BOSTON (AP) — Tom McVie, who coached the Winnipeg Jets to the 1979 World Hockey Association championship over Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton Oilers in the final year before the franchises were absorbed into ...
He led the World Hockey Association’s Birmingham Bulls ... previously only 20-year-olds could be drafted into the best league in the world. Linseman’s route to pro hockey began when he took ...
In 1972, when the Edmonton Oilers entered the World Hockey Association, the entry free was $25,000. When Peter Pocklington cajoled, threatened and bought his WHA Oilers (and star forward Wayne ...
from a World Hockey Association franchise that lasted just one season to minor league teams such as the Firebirds of the now-defunct North American League, the circuit on which Slap Shot was based.
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